Book Haul (45)

Book Haul is a feature post which showcases some of the books that I got.

The Help Kathryn Stockett Genre: Historical Fiction

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step....

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women--mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends--view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

I've watched the movie x number of times, I've read it as an ebook and I've been wanting to listen to the audiobook. I saw this in a book sale and *shrugs* why not? I only have an eBook and it's soooo good to have a hardcopy. *pets book*

From NetGalley

The Last of the Firedrakes (The Avalonia Chronicles #1) by Farah Oomerbhoy

Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins

Do you see all that blue? It's soothing and would keep me calm against the probable angst in these books. Thanks NetGalley, Wise Fire Creative Publishing and Sourcebooks Fire.

For My Kindle

Prodigal (The Lost Imperials #2) by Tyler Jolley & Sherry D. Ficklin

For Review

The Wicked Awakening of Anne Merchant (The V Trilogy #2) by Joanna Wiebe

When you read a WTF moment

And that cliffhanger ending

 in the first book, The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant.

That's why... Thank you BenBella Books. Now, I've got to read what happens.